VGA option rom code broken?

YhLu YhLu at tyan.com
Wed Feb 9 07:05:01 CET 2005


I'm back to office, and I could do some test on that today.

YH 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Li-Ta Lo [mailto:ollie at lanl.gov] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 9:28 AM
> To: Ronald G. Minnich
> Cc: YhLu; Stefan Reinauer; LinuxBIOS
> Subject: RE: VGA option rom code broken?
> 
> On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 10:22, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, YhLu wrote:
> > 
> > > But I guess the problem is about Emulator, and Ron is 
> digging that 
> > > on
> > > S2885 now. With LinuxBIOS (enable VGA and copy that to 
> RAM but don't
> > > run_BIOS) + test bios.
> > 
> > some more detail on this. We have temporarily modified 
> linuxbios to do 
> > everything EXCEPT actually run the emulator. This ensures that the 
> > routing is right in 18:1 etc. but allows us to defer 
> running the bios 
> > until we can run the user mode testbios.
> > 
> > I think that a CMOS setting and/or build time option to enable this 
> > would be very useful.
> > 
> 
> Is the routing correct? Can you see the vbios image at 0xc0000?
> 
> You are using S2885 right?
> 
> Ollie
> 
> 



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